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It was a nourishing pleasure to spend time with wonderful beings at our Plots and Plans events Saturday past, how lucky we are to have found each other! Thank you so much to our dedicated members and volunteers, project leaders and committee members (even me!) for all our work. Thank you to Kruti Kattige and

Dear Members and Friends,   You are cordially invited to St Columb’s Park House on Saturday 28th February from 10am – 3pm for our Plots & Plans* event -coming together to hear from each other and take stock. We will have a delicious lunch together too.  In March of this year Zero Waste North West will be 13 years old. Since Inception

Mary McGuiggan on Save Our Sperrins Podcast Some people carry a quiet kind of power. Mary McGuigan is one of them. Born in Derry, she’s a retired teacher, an Irish dancer and dance teacher, an activist, a mother and grandmother. She helped bring the Rights of Nature movement here to the North, and she’s been

Morning Everyone, Hard to believe that two months have passed since our beautiful Gathering in Moville this year and so much has been happening since. But just to remind you, I have attached a short video and a synopsis of the day .written by Cedar Monroe, who travelled from the States via Cork to be be

Three Day Extension – deadline for bids is now midnight Monday 17th March. Your ideas are important. Write a few lines. Make a two minute video with you talking to your phone. and remember – Market Place get-together and voting Sat 29th March 1-4pm in Ethical Weigh. Normalising Climate Action Participatory Budget (PB)https://zerowastenw.org/projects/participatory-budget/ PB funding comes

Conall’s description of our Normalising Climate Action Participatory Budget (PB) sums it up! The PB gives the ZWNW team a framework for sharing and discussing ideas and also a voting system for deciding on which ideas to take forward, kind of like Dragons Den with a voting system similar to the one used in the

Life Cycles is thrilled to announce that it has been awarded £20,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund to support its transformative new project, “Pedal Powered: Reviving Communities Through Bike Refurbishment.” This initiative will provide refurbished bicycles, cycle training, and maintenance workshops to individuals facing transport barriers, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.  With rising transport

If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. Joanna R. Macy ‘PB has a pedagogic function, to bring citizens together, demand discernment and a critical spirit of them, reinforce their neighbourhood ties,